#affection

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#amity #love #love

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. ↗

— Mary Astell

#any #creator #debases #her #self

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature. ↗

— William Bartram

#affections #ardent #attachment #faithful #filial

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#easily #i #i can #swayed #unfaithful

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#full #i #i do #know #like

And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#agreeable #agreed #although #brothers #children

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#heart #man #mere #ought #scientific

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#altered #back #bring #broken #chain

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#crush #dream #enchantment #love-story #richelle